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...That will be for the political decision makers to decide. From a military perspective, if we've given them an enhanced capability, they should be able to go ahead and do it on their own. It's teaching a guy how to catch a fish rather than just giving him a fish. I think they prefer us to come in and give them what they need to do the job themselves, and then move...
...addition, roadrunners, coyotes, wild pigs and over 350 species of fish nest in Harvard Square’s famed nature preserve...
...world. No one knows how many are in forced labor like Andy, sold by their parents for weeks or years to agents who promise salaries that turn out to be inflated, are whittled away by fictitious expenses or are nonexistent. But for mind-numbing work like netting fish on a jermal, children are the ideal employees - cheap, docile and easily cowed. "They said I could go home after three months," Andy recalls, clutching his right hand still swollen from a sea snake bite. "But there was no replacement so they said I had to stay...
...working day on a jermal lasts 18 hours and the boys are isolated; their only contact with the outside world is when operators pick up the catch and drop off water, rice and instant noodles. Flattened cardboard boxes serve as mattresses. Mangy dogs defecate on the platform surface where fish are sorted from the sea snakes and jellyfish. In the past five years, six boys have died at sea, the victims of accidents and failed escapes. Andy was rescued last July, one of scores of boys who have been removed from the jermals since the International Labor Organization began...
...Utah is to live in a state of paradox," says Terry Tempest Williams, one of the state's best-known writers. Utah is hardly Brigham Young's Promised Land of milk and honey. It is mostly infertile desert, rock and a lake that is too salty to support even fish. Out of this apocalyptic landscape of blood-red rock and sulphur-colored plains, the pioneers hacked a difficult livelihood, struggling with biblical droughts, a plague of grasshoppers and overpowering summer heat. In other Western states such hardships bred a cantankerous individualism. In Utah the LDS church fostered a tightly knit...